Dick's Sporting Goods Inc. said Feb. 28 that it will no longer sell assault-style rifles, which are also called modern sporting rifles, in all of its 35 Field & Stream stores.
The specialty retailer already stopped the sale of rifles in its Dick's stores in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in December 2012.
Dick's said it will not sell high-capacity magazines and it will not sell firearms to customers under 21 years old. The retailer noted that it has never sold and will continue not to sell bump stocks, which enable semiautomatic weapons to fire more rapidly.
The decision comes after the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., where 17 people were killed.
The company said it wants officials to pass "common sense gun reform," including banning assault-style firearms as well as high-capacity magazines and bump stocks and raising the required age to buy firearms to 21 years old.
In a Feb. 27 interview with The New York Times, Dick's CEO Edward Stack said the company discovered in its records that it had legally sold a gun to the Parkland shooter though not the firearm used in the incident. Stack reportedly said, "But it came to us that we could have been a part of this story. We said, 'We don't want to be a part of this any longer.'"
